Tim Bennett

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I'm sorta like a lion's cage. Babe, it's time we give something new a try. Let's see about this ham.

The piece of art, Francisco Goya’s Saturn Devouring His Son, which is technically a painting, but it was painted not on a canvas, but on the walls of Goya's house. Based on the Greek/Roman myth, it's a terrifying big guy, who is literally eating the body of his son to prevent a prophesy. His son's head and right arm are already gone leaving bleeding stumps, having been eaten, and now the left arm is in Saturn's mouth up to the elbow. There's a look in Saturn's face and eyes that portrays absolute horror. I love this painting, and want to get a series of comic art commissions of it, but that costs money and I need more space on the apartment walls.
Paul Giamatti screaming as John Adams
And the last panel I pulled from Strange Tales #121, and Baron Mordo is doing his evil wizard thing and bombarding Steve's "ectoplasmic form" with "every magic force" at his command, so he's just shooting Steve with ALL OF THE MAGIC! Ol' Stephen Strange's not looking good, folks, how's he gonna get outta this one?! Turns out that Dr. Strange can make a duplicate astral form that took the brunt of all the magic. Pretty bullshit solution if you ask me
Another panel from Strange Tales #121, and Steve's astral form (called ectoplasmic form here), has taken control of a wax statue of some Asian guy (racist) that looks A LOT like Unicron, you know, the planet eater from Transformers: The Movie The next panel is the statue grabbing hold of Baron Mordo, who is BAFFLED who could possibly be powerful enough to be controlling a wax statue. Dude, you were literally just arguing with him, take a wild guess!
It's that "Hello yes this is dog" meme, but without the text
Another panel from Strange Tales #120, this one has Steve surrounded by white swirls that is supposed to represent evil magic. I guess I'll call it evil magic because Steve, Mordo, and the Ancient One all say they're using "black magic," but only Mordo is evil? Whatever, Stan barely kept track so why should I? Anyway, Steve is casting a spell I guess, he's doing that pointing his left hand at the camera through the white swirls and his right hand is posed also magically into the air. And his incantation is just all namedropping all those magical...people? But also places, that he knows that I guess gives him a boost to his magic powers. He does say, "In the name of the dread Dormammu!!" Which seems weird because Dormammu is evil, right? Why is Steve calling upon the powers of an evil demon or whatever the hell Dormammu is (all I know is he likes to bargain). He also says, "By the Hosts of the Hoary Hoggoth!" so I guess Stan hadn't nailed down that catchphrase yet....
Another panel from Strange Tales #120 (by Steve Ditko, Sam Rosen, and Stan Lee, btw), so that floating dick eye from my previous post has gone to Steve's head. His forehead, that is, and he can now look into the Haunted House (which is a living creature from another dimension, if you didn't see that other post), which is depicted by yellow light beaming out of the GIGANTIC eye on Steve's forehead, projecting the guy who entered the Haunted House for a TV show. I didn't mention that this is for a live TV special where they film the outside of the house while the guy goes in, so we can't see him, so isn't it a radio program? It was the 60s so maybe that sort of thing disappeared from the radio, who knows, whatever boomer Anyway, it's a close of Steve's face, and his regular eyes make him look like he's super duper baked
Two panels from Strange Tales #120, Steve is using his magic amulet AGAIN, which pretty much whatever he needs it to. At the moment, he wants to look inside a Haunted House (which turns out to be an alive creature from another dimension, spoilers!), so a big eye appears on the amulet. It's wide open, looking kinda shocked even though it doesn't have a face. The second panel is the eye floating out of the amulet, but the speed lines that Ditko drew makes it look like the eye is extending out of the amulet. Like a dick, it looks like dick.
3 panels from Strange Tales #119, where Dr. Strange is fighting a weirdo named Aggamon, the All-Powerful! who’s the absolute ruler of the dread Purple Dimension, accessed only through an evil purple crystal, which Steve had just left lying around his Sanctum, but like an idiot left the window open so 2 well dressed burglars with stylish hats broke in and tried to steal it. So of course they get sucked into the dread Purple Dimension, which is not really THAT purple, there are a lot other colors there too, and with 60s coloring how can you really tell it's a dread Purple Dimension, or just some other evil dimension? And Aggamon, the All-Powerful! is green so where does he get off being the absolute ruler of the Purple Dimension. And his skimpy leotard and boots aren’t even purple, they’re red! Anyway, Aggamon, the All-Powerful! has a collar so damn high that Steve gets collar envy and they have a light show fight: Steve with his magic amulet that he uses for EVERYTHING like a sonic screwdriver, and Aggamon, the All-Powerful! uses his "jeweled demolisher beam,” and the beam is actually purple! How about that. Oh, and I guess Steve is saving the lives of those two burglars, who do turn themselves in to the cops at the end and reform, so yay happy ending The first panel is the height of the light show fight, and Steve's yellow light of fear and Aggamon, the All-Powerful!'s sapphire light of love are clashing in the middle, a big explosion of light! The second panel is pretty much the same thing but less exciting, these guys haven’t moved, shining their laser pointers at each other, but with less intensity because they’re both looking tired, not sure why since they’re both using devices, and Aggamon, the All-Powerful!’s is mechanical so they maybe his battery is getting low and he’s not used to standing this long? The final panel is both them slumped over exhausted, and their beams are now all weak and limp, look it happens to all of us. This Laser Floyd show sucks
My photo of Figaro (or possibly it's Cleo? I forget which one's which), Who is a very floofy cat, lounging on the bed looking at me. This is the floofiest cat I've ever cat sat
Three panels from Fantastic Four Annual #2 (1964), by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Chic Stone, and Sam Rosen. Not showed, but previously Dr. Doom enacted his plan to destroy the cursed Richards and his family ONCE AND FOR ALL! His scheme was invited them to a ceremony in their honor at the Latverian embassy, and they agreed because it hasn't been revealed to them or the world that Doom is the ruler of Latveria known as The Master (but has been revealed to us, True Believers). During the ceremony, Doom lacky slips the FF an herbal mickey that makes them hallucinate "the worst in each other," according to Reed. While trying to get busy with a lady, Johnny started tripping balls and saw Ben verbally and physically abusing him. Johnny didn't notice that not-Ben is slightly transparent so Johnny finds the real Ben and they get into a fight starting a big ruckus. Sue sees a transparent Reed making out with some rando chick and gets all womanly upset. Reed didn't down the roofied drunk they were offered, because he had a funny feeling about all this, but let his family quaff some mysterious liquid because Reed's a dick. Ben drank it but didn't get a chance to see some weird shit because his fight with Johnny started early. Doom's scheme is only foiled because Doom has an emo moment and wonders if he'll actually be happy once the FF are defeated. He melodramatically decides to check out his horribly scarred or whatever face in a mirror and "IT'S EVEN WORSE THAN I REMEMBERED!" and he laserguns the mirror. The FF go, hey what was that and they snap out their trip and chase Doom off. ANYWAY, we finally get our three panels and Sue is apologizing for being a fool not believing Reed would never cheat, and Reed says, "Not a fool, Sue...merely a FEMALE! You couldn't have acted differently!!" Oh fuck off, Reed
A panel from Fantastic Four Annual #2 (1964), by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Chic Stone, and Sam Rosen. Ben is testing a new adhesive that Reed created for NASA capsules by pulling two blocks apart that Reed had stuck together with the adhesive. Ben's successful, and Reed is happy that it took Ben only three seconds to pry them apart, which means the adhesive is "strong enough to hold a nose cone on a missile against the pull and stress of black-off!" The way Jack Kirby drew this is super weird though. Ben was facing away from us, and in the act of yanking these blocks apart (which look metal btw, a metal block sounds weird to me but I guess it's a thing), Ben causes himself to fly backwards, which again, is towards us. So, Jack draws him floating in mid-air on his back, his head craning back to look at us upside down. The two metal blocks are his hands at his sides, with a white goo splurting between them. It's not exactly the most graceful position for Ben to be in
A photo of a vinyl copy of the Xanadu soundtrack, which we are now the proud owners of! Aren't you jealous!
A screenshot from Daredevil season 2, with The Punisher and The Kingpin in prison. Fisk is wearing prison orange, but Frank is wearing white and is covered in blood stains. Frank just gave Fisk a warning and Fisk replies, "I'm counting on it."
Screenshot of Delia Deetz played by the late, great Catherine O'Hara
Photo of Nigela Lawson, who's a super hot TV chef but says microwave weird, like meecro-wah-vay. I know, right?
A photo I took with my phone on the TV paused on a scene in The Gilded Age where Peggy Scott and Dr. Kirkland have a date at a baseball game, which is the one of the most boring sports ever. She's quite excited by the game and says to Dr. Kirkland, "Baseball is more intense than I thought." Pffft, bwaahaha...!
A screenshot from Mortal Kombat 1 of Kano's win screen.
The map of both castles from Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
A photo from Quark's Bar and Restaurant from the Star Trek Experience (RIP) that was in the Las Vegas Hilton, of four fucking nerds wearing Next Gen uniforms (though they don't look that nerdy, so nerds can be sexy now). It's three guys and one woman, but the guys are wearing command red, and the woman is wearing operations gold. What, woman can't be captains?! Anyway, they're going to town on a fishbowl of steaming red liquid (it's steaming from dry ice), using long colorful straws. This is a drink I've had a bunch of times when visting the Star Trek Experience, and it's a Warp Core Breach. Here's a recipe from the official Star Trek site, but it's not the one we used to make that had Sobe Power, which no longer exists. We haven't tried this recipe, so no guarantees: https://www.startrek.com/videos/warp-core-breach-cocktail-recipe
Santa Devoring his child, who is an elf (a Christmas parody if the awesome Goya painting)
A shot of the Three Storms from Big Trouble in Little China, standing in the street and looking badass
Shot from the Simpsons, the one where Krusty dies, if memory serves me correctly. Bart is lying in bed in his pajamas and holding a Krusty doll. Homer is leaning in super intensely, and is telling Bart, "Why, you could wake up dead tomorrow. Well, good night." And Bart is frowning and his eyes are huge and worried because he finally feels the grim spectre of death like never before.
A shot from the movie Scavenger Hunt (1979), featuring Richard Mulligan (from Empty Nest) standing in the parking lot of a strip mall in San Diego, leaning against a taxi snd looking at an envelope and eating a banana. I know this mall specifically, it's on Garnet Ave in PB, because it had our favorite pasta restaurant in the late 90s/early 2000s (it was more 90s than Italian). They'd make their own pasta fresh with different flavors, like spinach or red pepper, and then you'd pick your own sauce. So fucking good, though it's been gone for a couple decades now. RIP Lotsa Pasta. Their garlic soup was really good too, though some indigestion could happen. Anyway, even though some scenes were filmed at the Huntington Library, most of it was filmed around SD, like at Balboa Park and the zoo and shit. So, I say it takes place in SD too, so there.
Photo of my traveling water cup, which is covered in various stickers, but this photo is focusing on a sticker of the Tall Man from Phantasm, with a red coffin background. He's holding up one of the killer metal balls, I forget if they have a name. One of the ball's cool barbed spikes in being covered by another sticker that's a map of Alaska, but oh well
Photo of four (4) laptops in the SDCC waiting room
Panel from Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos, by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Geo. Bell, and Art Simek. The Commandos are busting into a Nazi barracks, most of them sensibly use the door, Dum Dum Dugan decided to bash throught the windows for some reason and risk getting shredded. The walls of the barracks for bright red and the floor is bright yellow, because 60s coloring. Gabriel is blowing his horn because that's what he always does. He's also a black character but he's colored gray because white guys in the 60s didn't know how to color black people properly so they resorted to gray. But hey, a black army hero character in the 60s, good on you Stan
Photo of Ella Vosque from Drag Race UK, wearing her Titanic Museum in Belfast dress
Claudia Cardinale from Once Upon a Time in the West, RIP
Three panels from the Sgt. Fury and his his Howling Commandos from the last skeet, credits are the same so I'm not typing all that out again, no time for that. Anyway, the middle panel is stoll the 🤨 face, but the left panel shows him kinda calm, but Nick is getting madder and madder at Baron Strucker calling him out and in the third panel he is insane with rage. Jack Kirby is great, y'all
A panel from Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos #5, by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, G. Bell, and S. Rosen, of selfsame Sgt. Fury on his army uniform reading a letter from Baron Strucker calling him our for a fight. And Nick does not like it one bit and is making this face 🤨 but as HARD as he can
A shot of Terrance Stamp from The Limey, that one where he has blood splattered on his face and he's screaming, "You tell him i'm coming!"
Screenshot of my 1776th day streak which i grabbed 'cause Murica!
Poster for Transformers: The Movie
A panel from Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye (which is fucking great, btw. Don't know which issue but it's got that good, good Alex Milne art) of Rodimus blaming Megatron (who's an Autobot now, btw) for something and Megatron us wryly smiling and denying guilt. Cyclones and Ultra Magnus are in the background staring at something going on out the windows
Cover of Rom/Transformers: Shining Armor #1
Photo of my new t-shirt that features a large green cartoony print of Vincent Price's face. He apparently signed it underneath so maybe it's a collector's item!
Photo of the box of Action Edition (whatever that is) of Blokees Soundwave, complete with Ratbat, Lazerbeak, Ravage, and Rumble. Blokees are model kits that don't transform, but I'm okay with that. I'm not sure if it's pronounced "Blowkeys" or "Blockeys." Depends on if you're English, I guess
A SDCC exclusive of an 11 inch sparkly Galactus who's holding a little planet earth. Galactus is smiling and Earth is frowning. It's freaking adorable but also costs...ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS?!
Cover of Marvel's Transformers #70, featuring--holy crap--Megatron and Ratchet are all melty and fused together, their eyes are lidless and full of terror, their mouths gaping open screaming silently. They're holding up a torn out page from a notebook with "HELP US" written in oil (their blood??). The S is also written as a backwards 2. Jesus christ this is a comic for children to sell toys?
The Spectre (1992) by John Ostrander that FUCKING GLOWS IN THE DARK
Poster for the Civil War movie, Glory
DVD cover of the 60s Romeo and Juliet featuring Olivia Hussey's underage boobs
An old timey poster of the Disney movie, Johnny Tremain, who did NOT actually exist
A shot from the John Adams miniseries of Paul Giamatti as John Adams screaming and looking very Paul Giamatti
A shot from the awesome John Adams HBO miniseries of Paul Giamatti as John Adams. He's yelling at someone and looking very much like Paul Giamatti wearing 1770s wig and hat yelling at someone
A shot from Big Trouble in Little China of Peter Kwong as Rain, one of the Three Storms, making a grrr face in his cool giant hat and brandishing his super rad metal claw weapons, which probably have a name but I haven't looked it up. RIP
Panel from Uncanny X-Men #142 of Colossus punching the Blob in the taint, by Chris Claremont, John Byrne, Terry Austin, Glynis Wein, and Tom Orzechowski
IDW version of the Transformers character Arcee with her flaming swords looking rad as hell and very pink
Screenshot of imdb's daily birthdays with lots of hot chicks and Bill Irwin at the far right looking left at the hot chicks with a big smile on his face
Panel from Uncanny X-Men #142, by Chris Claremont, John Byrne, Terry Austin, Glynis Wein, and Tom Orzechowski, featuring Colossus punching the Blob in the taint. The Blob is flying backwards through the air from being punched on the taint, behind him is Avalanache about to be crushed and is yelling, "Blob--oh, NO!"
John Waters and David Lynch shake hands and smiling in front of a Bob's Big Boy statue like there's joy and happiness in the world
Cover for a Knott's Berry Farm souvenir book, featuring Ghost Town. Probably published by 1959 at the latest
Landon Cider performing Joe Pesci drag from Home Alone getting his head set on fire
Susan Storm and Namor are talking about the movie they just made, and they have very large foreheads. From Fantastic Four #9, by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Dick Ayers, and Art Simek
Flash Gordon poster signed by Sam J. Jones
A Space Oirish from Star Trek: TNG making a funny face for some reason